As for the Xbox One version, it’s also now in final certification – this it its first go round, but don’t let that worry you. It’s an expensive process, so developers and publishers try not to do it more than once.

We had expected both the PS4 and Xbox One versions before the end of August, but 4J Studios is quite a small team, and Minecraft is a much more complicated beast than its simple looks suggest. Still, it looks like there’s not long to wait now. The Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions are a pretty good fallback.